Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnadrehy, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnadrehy
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02277, -9.16467
- SMR number
- MA048-050001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a low rise, in an area of undulating terrain. This rath is shown on the 1922 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 22-25m) with a souterrain (MA048-050002-), marked as ‘cave’, on the perimeter at SW. The rath has been levelled, and is now bisected, slightly N of centre, by an E–W property wall. To S of the wall, in a pasture field, remnants of a levelled scarp can still be discerned curving SE–W, and a surface opening reveals the souterrain (MA048-050002-). To N of the property wall, no trace of the rath is evident and the location is overlain by a modern house, driveway and garden. There is another rath (MA048-049----) c. 100m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.